Usha Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.58706 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-66 Year-2022 Thana- KHIRI MORE District- Patna ====================================================== Usha Devi W/o Shadeo Paswan R/o Village- Dadhapar, P.S.- Khiri More, District- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Rakesh Ranjan Shrivastava For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Parmeshwar Mehta ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 09-09-2025

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Sections 420, 409, 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and is a woman, aged about 69 years and the informant alleges that an amount of Rs.11,45,400/- was transferred in the account of ward member i.e. petitioner and ward secretary i.e. Om Prakash under Nal Jal Yojna, it is further alleged that on physical verification, the work was not found completed, thus alleges that money was misappropriated.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.58706 of 2025(2) dt.09-09-2025 2/3 petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant. It is next submitted that prior to instituting the instant FIR, no notice or show-cause was issued to the petitioner. It is next submitted that had any show-cause been issued to the petitioner seeking her explanation, perhaps the instant FIR would not have been instituted. It is also submitted that work worth of Rs.10,01,659/- was completed, as such it cannot be alleged that the money was misappropriated. It is also submitted that petitioner will not abscond rather will cooperate in the investigation to prove her innocence.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner and also taking into consideration the fact that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and is a woman aged about 69 years, the petitioner above-named, in the event of her arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Khiri More P.S.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.58706 of 2025(2) dt.09-09-2025 3/3 Case No.66/2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T